Govt to ensure uninterrupted power supply to all households by March 2019: R K Singh

Union Power Minister R K Singh said the government is on course to ensure uninterrupted power supply to all households by March next year.Speaking to reporters in New Delhi yesterday the minister said as of now, 29.33 lakh houses have been connected with power. Among the over 18,000 un-electrified villages identified when the government began its project, only 935 remain without



power supply. Singh said their target is to make available power supply to four crore households by March 31 next year. 

The minister said the government is also working on a law to ensure that there is no "gratuitous load shedding" and households are provided uninterrupted power barring when there is a technical problem.